CINCINNATI (WXIX) – A 33-year-old Cincinnati woman was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to supplying the fentanyl/cocaine mix that resulted in the overdose deaths of two men, court records show.
Alicia Green, who also is known as “Badu” and “$laurynhill” “Asa” and “Ace,” agreed to the prison term followed by five years parole in a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio.
Green waived her May 2023 indictment earlier this year and entered a guilty plea to one count of Distribution of a Controlled Substance.
The drugs were left in her Lower Price Hill apartment by the father of her two children when he went to prison, her lawyer wrote in her sentencing paperwork.
Green thought it was just cocaine and sold it to Adam Numrich, 35, who shared it with his friend and next-door-neighbor on Wardall Avenue, Brian Dusold, 36, court records show.
Both men were longtime drug addicts, her lawyer noted.
Numrich graduated from Miami University and held a Bachelor’s Degree in Zoology, according to his obituary online at a local funeral home. Dusold’s obituary says he worked as a freight broker for LDI.
Dusold was found dead first on Oct. 6, 2021, in his residence, and Numrich was found dead the following day at his home, on his back porch with two glass pipes next to him, according to Green’s criminal complaint.an
Cincinnati police responded and alerted a Amberley Village police detective who is a member of the Hamilton County Heroin Task Force.
Green then sold drugs to a government informant on several occasions, court records show. At that point, the substance tested positive for cocaine only on each occasion, according to her lawyer.
She sold no further drugs after “this small supply left by her former boyfriend was gone,” her lawyer wrote in a court filing.
Federal prosecutors described Green in their sentencing memo as “a low-level gram dealer. Her personal history and characteristics, including her upbringing, are horrific. And she took accountability for her actions by admitting to the crime.”
Her plea agreement and waiving her indictment, prosecutors wrote, gives “finality to this prosecution.
“Such finality,” they noted, “is not only important to the victims’ families who seek closure but also to investigators who can turn their resources elsewhere – including investigating and prosecuting high-level, multi-kilogram distributors of fentanyl, who are ultimately responsible for the countless overdoses and deaths that they have caused by flooding our streets with fentanyl.”
Green’s sentence was “discussed extensively with and agreed to by the families of the two victims in this case,” prosecutors stressed in court filings.
“Both families expressed remarkable grace and mercy, due largely to their faith, during repeated discussions about the plea agreement and (Green’s) potential sentence.”
Green’s total sentence allows for 12 years of governmental control over her “which will hopefully aid (her) in becoming a productive citizen,” prosecutors wrote in her sentencing paperwork.
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